NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

nvidia

Brand

32GB GDDR7

Memory

21760

Cores

1790 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 5090

$2,955.99 Jan 2025 View Details

$2,955.99

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

5888

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3070

$520.00 Aug 2020 View Details

$847.00

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

32GB GDDR7 575W $2,955.99 Jan 2025

GeForce RTX 5090

$1999 • Jan 2025

GeForce RTX 3070

$499 • Aug 2020

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

8GB GDDR6 220W $520.00 Aug 2020

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Memory Size	32 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR7	GDDR6
TDP	575 W	220 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2407 MHz	1725 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	1790 GB/s	448 GB/s
Process Size	5nm	8nm
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0	Ampere
Shading Units	21760	5888
RT Cores	170	46
TMUs	680	184
ROPs	176	96
Memory Bus	512-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1750 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	423.6 GPixel/s	165.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	1636.8 GTexel/s	448 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	104.8 GFLOPS	20.31 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	96.00 MB	4.00 MB
Die Size	750 mm²	392 mm²
Transistors	92200 Million	17400 Million
Required PSU	950 W	550 W
Power Connectors	1x 16-pin	1x 12-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.4	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	Samsung

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

53022 (+275%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

14126

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

419309 (+232%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

126195

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

624.6 FPS (+267%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

170.2 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

39505 (+78%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

22256

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Game Benchmarks Comparison (18 benchmarks)

Dying Light The Beast

8 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Techland

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 5090 (+180%)

AVG 210 FPS

MIN 192 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 5090 (+236%)

AVG 185 FPS

MIN 162 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 5090 (+242%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Winner

Loser

Borderlands 4

7.8 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Gearbox Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+215%)

AVG 104 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+369%)

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+586%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 7 FPS

MIN 6 FPS

Winner

Loser

Split Fiction

8.7 2025 • Action, Adventure • Hazelight Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+177%)

AVG 355 FPS

MIN 307 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 102 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+217%)

AVG 295 FPS

MIN 258 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+259%)

AVG 201 FPS

MIN 169 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

Winner

Loser

METAL GEAR SOLID Δ SNAKE EATER Background

METAL GEAR SOLID Δ SNAKE EATER

8.1 2025 • Action, Adventure • KONAMI

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+46%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+107%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+293%)

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 15 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

Winner

Loser

Battlefield 6

8.2 2025 • Action • Battlefield Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+182%)

AVG 209 FPS

MIN 184 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+214%)

AVG 160 FPS

MIN 144 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+248%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

Winner

Loser

Mafia The Old Country

7.1 2025 • Action, Adventure • Hangar 13

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+116%)

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 38 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+159%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+420%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 10 FPS

MIN 8 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Wins!

Based on 18 benchmarks across 6 games

135

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5090

+200.9%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3070